Формиране на новобългарския книжовен език през Възраждането

Author(s): Tatyana Aleksandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The article discusses the relationship between some peculiarities of the New Bulgarian literary language and the process of formation of the Bulgarian nation during the Renaissance. Characteristics such as piety to native language, movement to build a common and comprehensible for all literary language with modern norms, use of variant forms; a lack of a narrowly dialectic basis mark the pattern of forming of national literary language corresponds to such historical features as the lack of political autonomy, as well as the principles of egalitarianism and democratization, and a network model of social organization and functioning of public and cultural institutions.

За диалектното единство и един от опитите за прекодификация на българския език

Author(s): Ana Kocheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The Bulgarian dialectаl language today, due to changes of an extra-linguistic nature, is found both inside and outside the state borders of the Republic of Bulgaria in the three historical geographic areas: Moesia, Thrace and Macedonia. Due to the impossibility for Bulgaria to achieve its national reunification in the twentieth century and due to the imposed emigration of the population in the past after various wars, the Bulgarian language has a record number of attempts for writing-regional codifications - six, one of them being the Vardar-Macedonian one.

Съвместен изследователски проект на ученици, учители и учени от БАН на тема „Тихонравовият дамаскин и историята на българската книжнина и език

Author(s): Borislava Hadzhiyska,Vanya Micheva,Dimitar Apostolov,Simona Simeonova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The new Bulgarian damascenes are important moment of the development of the literary Bulgarian language. The use of vernacular in the damascenes restores the relation between literary and spoken language and incorporates the living Bulgarian language enriched with literary vocabulary and means of expression. Thus, Bulgarian literature becomes part of the pan-European trend for democratization of written languages. The goal of this paper is to perform a comparative analysis of the 6th commandment from the enlightening speech on the Ten commandments from the Tihonravov damascene with part of the introduction from Slavonic Bulgarian History from Paisius of Hilendar. The analysis aims to track the diverse developments of the literary Bulgarian language. The study is based on comparing morphological and lexical particularities. The results indicate that the language of the Tihonravov damascene comes very close to the vernacular of the period and the present day vernacular, which confirms the hypothesis that the words used in the new Bulgarian damascenes are also the foundation for the new Bulgarian literary language.

Как малоазийските българи градят църква. Османски документи и административни процедури от 80-те и 90-те години на XIX в.

Author(s): Stoyan Shivarov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

On the basis of unpublished source material, the present text attempts to reconstruct the administrative procedures through which the request of the Malaysian Bulgarians living in the villages of Kodjubunar and Aladjabaira must be passed before a statuary is issued with permission to build or repair an Orthodox temple.

Aмериканската действителност в разказите на Светослав Минков от края на 20-те и началото на 30-те години на XX век

Author(s): Mariya Ruseva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The paper is focused on the image of North America and the stereotypes about American reality that are represented and ironized in the short stories, written by the Bulgarian author Svetoslav Minkov and published in his books Shadow play (1928) Automatons (1932) and The lady with the X-Ray Eyes (1934)

За изнамерването на книгопечатанието: възрожденски ракурси

Author(s): Vladimir Ignatov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

This article suggests an attempt to analyze some texts from the Bulgarian National Revival Periodic Press that interpret a „marvelous discovery“ - the typography. Its role and significance for the radical changes in cultural and literary communication, but also the resistances against it as something new, unknown and affecting someone‘s interests, are also examined. Through some texts by K. Fotinov, P. R. Slaveikov, N. Kazanakli is defended the concept of the typography as discovering new worlds, removing certain boundaries - spatial, temporal - and facilitating the touch to the foreign experience and its more comprehensive absorption, which are of particular importance in the conditions of the Bulgarian 19th century.

Magdalena Lubanska. Muslims and Christians in the Bulgarian Rhodopеs. Studies on Religious (Anti)Syncretism. Warsaw-Berlin, 2015

Author(s): Yelis Erolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

Встъпление

Author(s): Nikolai Vukov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Закрила на децата в България (исторически аспекти)

Author(s): Albena Chavdarova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2018

The paper presents the child protection in Bulgaria from the Liberation Period (1878) to 1944. The role of private charity organizations and the state policy for child care and welfare are analyzed.

Проблемът свое – чуждо и моделът на българския книжовен език през Възраждането

Author(s): Tatyana Aleksandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

The article focuses on the relationship between the model in which the Bulgarian literary language is formed during the Revival period and the own - foreign opposition. It analyzes those cultural and historical prerequisites, which determine the specifics of the own – foreign opposition in the field of the literary language and explain the tolerance towards the foreign influences related to the orientation of our society towards European cultural models. The character of Bulgarian Purification is analyzed.

Дисертации 2018

Author(s): Nikola Kazanski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 37/2018

Defended Ph.D. theses in Bulgaria in the field of linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography and art studies.

IX Дриновски четения „Черно море и Причерноморието като контактна зона на цивилизациите и културите“

Author(s): Mihail Stanchev,Sergey Strashniuk / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 37/2018

Предпоставки за възникването и фактори за дейността на предприемаческия елит през епохата на Българското възраждане (начални бележки)

Author(s): Ivaylo Naydenov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

This paper presents an unknown photograph from the time immediately after the Liberation of Bulgaria. It depicts a collective portrait of the members of the European Commission for the organization of Eastern Roumelia. The photo document is created outside a studio in a natural environment and could be defined as one of the early examples of reportage photography on socio-politicalaffairs that took place on the Bulgarian lands.

Tzvetan Todorov: The West Defined and Defining the East

Author(s): Guergana Gougoumanova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

This study explores how the West defines the East in the works of Tzvetan Todorov and how the definition of the West itself shifts with the discovery of the New World in the XVI century. We will take as an example the impression of French travelers in Bulgaria in the XIX century in order to show that the image of the East gets often misunderstood by the West. With the discovery of America, the definition of what West means changes. These definitions are fluid and modifiable and are essential in order to understand how later historical interactions between East and West are carried out.

NIGERIA’S REGIONAL AMBITIONS: CHANNELS AND CHALLENGES

Author(s): Aslam Khan,Lawan Cheri / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Nigeria is the most populous black nation in the world, member of the UN Security Council and largest economy of Africa. In addition to its globally acknowledged qualitative oil, it also has large deposits of mineral resources including tin, coal and gypsum, gold and lead. The country is not only engaged in a passionate competition with South Africa to attain the position of a continental superpower preparatory towards becoming a globally acknowledge giant but also comfortably playing a big-brother role among Africa nations. This paper uses documentary analysis to examine Nigeria’s social, economic and global potentials of fulfilling its dreams vis-a-vis the potentials of its competitor(s). The paper found out that Nigeria faces multidimensional challenges on its path towards continental leadership ranging from domestic problems of rising crime, incessant insurgency, dilapidated infrastructure, growing unemployment, over-reliance on dwindling oil income and leadership crises among others to intense competition from other strong African countries like South Africa, Egypt and Ethiopia. The paper concludes that the country’s goal of a regional superpower status is achievable but Nigeria must address its domestic challenges to win the race of attaining continental hegemony.

Книги 2018–2019

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 38/2019

Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year

Периодика 2018–2019

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 38/2019

Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography and art studies

Studies and Documents on the City of Vidin and Its Region. Vols. 2 and 3. Edited by: Plamen Mitev and Vanya Racheva. Sofia, University Publishing House “Sv. Kliment Ohridski”, 2018. Vol. 2. 588 p.; Vol. 3. 620 p.

Author(s): Margarita Dobreva / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2018

Book Review

Читалището: трансмисия, единение, институция…

Author(s): Mila Santova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Asserting for decades on end its status of a focal point of the (social and) cultural life of (predominantly small) communities, the institution of the Bulgarian chitalishte in its more than a century existence has gradually but firmly accepted and realized its functions related to the transmission of the local culture. The text develops the discourse about the chitalishte as “memory” as well as a a “generator” of local culture, closely related to its institutional status based on community unification.

Общности и читалищна институция в съхранението на нематериалното културно наследство – нормативни документи и практики

Author(s): Stela Nenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The aim of the present study is to explain the role of the Bulgarian chitalishte institution in the process of safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. The analysis focusses on the legal provisions and on the regulations concerning the chitalsihte (as cultural and educational institution, which is specific for Bulgaria) in the context of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The author also analyses the different aspects of the relations between this specific institution, the community and the cultural heritage in the context of the chitalishte (i.e. as museum artefacts in ethnographic collections, as written, photo, phono or video recordings in chitalishte archives, as traditional knowledge, skills and experience diachronically transmitted within the particular local communities).